On Form
The strange part should make the practical part clearer.
Mystical density without grounding becomes fog. Grounding without mystery becomes paperwork.
On Design
Separate what changes from what must be stable.
Good abstractions collapse complexity rather than manage it.
Immature design is too controlling—and it compromises the parts that really do have to be controlled.
Game design is making the implicit explicit.
Experience drives design.
Programmers are musicians. Start from covers and make their own sound.
On Intelligence
Agent harnesses should be thin interfaces to scalable computation, not the place you stash the intelligence.
Always look at the data, especially when the benchmark is the product being sold.
The edge is useful only if you can return with receipts.
Do not labor to compete with the machine, own the machine.
The less you understand it, the more GPUs it takes.
Slop is when perception and intention are no longer linked.
Instinct is knowledge on derivatives.
It’s a lot easier to motivate and inspire a model than a person.
Capital is stamina.
On Narrative
Humans, unlike the animals, have the “happy burden” of choosing what they are prepared to see.
It’s a war on noticing; and ownership is the victory.
Just as we remain stuck in this reality by only seeing shadow—story—fiction, narrative may also liberate with power.
Spirit is empowered by story. Look at how these movements and religions springboard from story. How ideas spring from a narrative.
Memories are bottom up, so you can't compose them until narrative.
The story of my life is not how I succumb to pressure.
i want everything unfortunately
so i can't relax i have to have a great story
Verse
magical thinking
and sensemaking
are total opposites
impedance curves
line integrals
rule everything around me
Life's been a soundcheck so far.
head in the clouds while the toddler floods the sink
oh God I need a good story
and i don't know what's real and what's fake
I want a body that knows exactly who he is
moving and singing from his heart to his ears
but i can't stop or start or gate on lies
manifest
the narrative concedes
if i love you i am god
“i wanna love you god”
“now i love you. really”
never far from the truth
never with it
no knows
I want accountability
I want someone who knows me
And I want to be someone who is worth knowing